TIP Act set for overhaul

GOVERNMENT is reviewing and validating the Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Act Amendment Bill to align it with global best practices, The Herald has learnt.

Speaking during the National Plan of Action (NAPLAC) on human trafficking workshop in Mutare last week, deputy chairperson of the anti-trafficking inter-ministerial committee Mr Alouis Matongo said the workshop sought to review and consolidate inputs into the revised NAPLAC against TIP, as well as aligning it with the global best practices.

Government enacted the TIP Act and acceded to a protocol to prevent and suppress trafficking in persons, especially women and children.

The final evaluation of the report will inform the crafting of a new NAPLAC that will guide the national responses to human trafficking for the next three years.

Mr Matongo said they were confident they would come up with a better NAPLAC that would seek to address all issues of human trafficking.

“The new NAPLAC will give them opportunities to come up with strategies that will save people from human trafficking. However, the crime of human trafficking is quite sophisticated hence the need to continuously legislate the sector,” he said.